From a musician point of view here is what I find about today's music and lets see if you agree. I find the melody becomes to repetitious due to its lack of melodic dynamics meaning there isn't much melody to it so they try to get creative by repeating things such as the notes over and over and that's one. I find today's music is severely lacking in arrangements, the much needed arranging is completely missing and alternatives music is a fine example of it when all the do is constantly strum -

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distorted power chords all the way through the music non stop and in many cases there isn't even 8 good measures of lead or much of a bridge if not missing altogether and the melodies are so elementary a first grader could do better at it. Compare some of the older music noting the things I've pointed out.

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I mean.. maybe the music from the 90's I'm exposed to, is only the really good stuff? and the stuff from the 2000's I remember, is also, only the best they had to offer...

While in the last 5-6 years... while there is some very good music.. I also still remember all the bad...

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I feel today's music is missing a whole lot of talent and creativity and that it's only being put out there for money purposes. I knew it couldn't be getting old because my ears are for the most part timeless when it comes to music. And when it takes having to turn a concert in to a sexual attracting or having it be about the lights the fog and all those other visible effects or in other words anything but the music, something is terribly wrong with that picture.

Not all bands destroyed guitars which in those days it was mainly guys on up on stage trying to impress girls. And they had the music in those days to go with the lights. The lights in those days also had a lot to do with drugs in those days don't forget. But the drugs in today's time isn't as popular as it was then and the lights and effects have exploded. So what's to explain that other than a lack of something else.

You are exactly right. No one remembers all the crap music from the 90s anymore - you only remember the great songs, because that's all they play anymore. Time has filtered out the crap for the most part.

The 90s had TONS of absolutely horrifically bad R&B music, many of which were topping the charts - but you don't hear it anymore because it was crap then and is crap now. Some of the stuff from that era that you DO still hear wasn't all at the top of the charts, but it has staying power because it was always quality music. Time has a way of exposing the truth.

Contemporary music will always suffer from a low signal-to-noise ratio, because time hasn't had a chance to filter out the crap yet. But 10 years from now, when they're ONLY playing the best songs from this era, this era's music will seem a lot better than it does now...

@MrOracle True and but there is nothing no music worse than what they're calling country music these days which has no roots at all and doesn't even remotely relate to country music except some john wearing a cowboy hat with a beer in his hand or a tobacco in his mouth to give a illusion it's country music. I can't even listen to 3 minutes of that fake wanna be noise.

today's music is fine. yes, there are songs other than the shit on the radio. also, to say that "yesterday's" music was some godsend that was absolutely perfect, that's the biggest myth ever. the difference is that you remember the songs y'all liked. also, it's a nostalgia thing. you like songs you grew up with.

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Yes I like the music I grew up with but my opinion wasn't meant to be biased. From a musicians point of view here is what I find about today's music and lets see if you agree. I find the melody becomes to repetitious due to its lack of melodic dynamics meaning there isn't much melody to it so they try to get creative by repeating things such as the notes over and over and that's one. I find today's music is severely lacking in arrangements, the much needed arranging is completely missing and alternatives music is a fine example of it when all the do is constantly strum distorted power chords all the way through the music non stop and in many cases there isn't even 8 good measures of lead or much of a bridge if not missing altogether and the melodies are so elementary a first grader could do better at it. Compare some of the older music using the guidelines I've listed above and see.

my comment wasn't meant to be directed towards you or specific person in general. it was an overall commentary. just wanna clarify that.

"I find the melody becomes to repetitious due to its lack of melodic dynamics meaning there isn't much melody to it so they try to get creative by repeating things such as the notes over and over and that's one..." i agree, but that's always been the case with music in the history of ever, especially in certain genres, especially pop. like now, it's a lot of trap and house music that's popular with hard bass and 808s. 90s and early 2000s, it was garage/alternative bands and boy bands. n sync, backstreet boys, nirvana, i can go on. mid 2000s, it was southern rap (lil john was killing it). it's just the nature of what's been successful at that time. i've listened to plenty of pop songs from the 60s and 70s and 80s. there's a definite style that people like. I don't know musical genre types specifically so you can educate me on that if you want.

if you are referring to rock in general, I don't know and can't really comment because i'm not a huge rock dude. i like mostly house, rap, trap, country, sometimes rock like x ambassadors. in terms of playing complex chords, it complex doesn't mean better. a lot of the greatest bands or songs didn't have super complex chords or riffs. the beatles, for example, were pretty simplistic. 2 of my favorite rock songs of all time are seven nation army (white stripes) and kryptonite (3 doors down) had riffs that were simple as hell, but regarded in the top 50 guitar riffs of all time in a few circles

and again, you can search for good music. i like the type of music they play on the radio, but the songs themselves are shit 95% of the time. i go on pandora, youtube, soundcloud, sirius xm to find music and there are songs i jam out to all the time like milky chance, flicflac, hardwell, diplo, hopsin, the band perry, kygo just to name a few... i can name hundreds of people a lot don't know about.

There is garbage from every genre and time period especially 90s alt rock (pun intended) just as there is amazing music from all genres and time periods. People that complain about how shitty music is today dont listen to music and/or are lying to sound intelligent and dignified.

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No people's complaints are legitimate I read those complaints from youngsters constantly under the comment sections of the older song videos on youtube. See the reply I made under Other_Tommy_Wiseau comment.

Hmmm...Not sure I really agree with your assessment. At least not completely haha. Like I said before, there are bands from all times and ages that had no melody, just as there are those that do. I'm not really sure what your argument is.

I certainly agree there were bands from then and now having no melody. But not to the degree that it is today the majority of what they play which I think it's the real problem. Both then and now is that those the real talent is purposefully being over looked and shut out in the name of profits.